MONSOON Image Acquisition System Peter Moore (1) and Gustavo Rahmer (2) (1) National Optical Astronomy Observatory (2) Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory “Rain drops keep falling on our heads” The MONSOON development program continues and we report on the current status of, and the future plans for this project. The Forecast : Warm deluges of success with some cold showers of reality
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MONSOON Image Acquisition System
Peter Moore(1) and Gustavo Rahmer(2)
(1) National Optical Astronomy Observatory (2) Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory
“Rain drops keep falling on our heads”
The MONSOON development program continues and we report on the current status of, and the future plans for this project.
The Forecast : Warm deluges of success with some cold showers of reality
Taking a photon shower
Not enough time to catch all the photons we need !
Big instruments – Big focal planes
More photons !! UV – VIS – NIR – MIR.
MONSOON designed to accommodate these requirements
So; where is MONSOON ?
350
1050
2500
1000
1100
400
DES - DECAM
62 Det. 124 Ch.
550 Mpixels
17 Sec. Readout
On sky 2009
NOAO - NEWFIRM
4 Det. 256 Ch.
16 Mpixels
0.5 Sec. Readout
On sky 2006
WIYN – QUOTA/ODI
4/64 Det. 32/512 Ch.
64/1024 Mpixels
2 Sec. Readout
On sky 2007/2009
Where we’re at:
Performance
DETECTORTYPE
SYSTEMGAIN
SYSTEM NOISE
PIXEL RATE
LIN. DYNAMIC RANGE
TOTAL NOISE
VIS STA 05106
3μv/ADU2.7 ADU
rms.350
KPix/Sec< 0.1%
INL18 Bit
1:2621445 e- rms.10 ADU
NIR ORION2.5415μv/ADU
1.3 ADUrms.
132Kpix/Sec
< 0.1%INL
16 Bit 1:65536
12e- rms.4 ADU
VIDEO CHANNEL PERFORMANCE – To Date
SYSTEM NAME
VIDEO COUNT
BIAS COUNT
CLOCK COUNT
PIXEL RATE
POWER DELIVERY
VIS CCDLab 8 44 324
MPix/Sec37 Watts Dec 2004
NIR NEWFIRM 256 88 6433
MPix/Sec192
WattsMay 2005
VIS DeCam 124 176 12831
MPix/Sec274
WattsApr 2007
SYSTEM PERFORMANCE
Common tech. large,/small/VIS/IR
DHE HARDWARE
FIRMWARE
COMMUNICATIONS
DETECTORS
SINGLE DETECTOR
S
ARRAYS OF DETECTOR
S
VISIBLE DETECTOR
S
IR DETECTOR
S
APPLICATIONS
SOFTWARE
PHOTONS IN
(MUCH) DATA OUT
ICD 1.x
ICD 8.xICD 7.xICD 6.x
ICD 4.x
ICD 6.x
Soft/hard Status
MEC
MONSOON ENGINEERING
CONSOLE
GPX
GENERIC PIXEL SERVER
SUPER
MONSOON SUPERVISOR
LAYER
DHI
DATA HANDER INTERFACE
PPX
PAN CAPTURE
PAN PROCESS
PAN SAVER
TOOLSET
CONFIGURE TOOL
IN PROGRESS
BETA TESTING
RELEASED
RELEASED
RELEASEDIN
PROGRESS
ICD 4.0
CCDACQ
8 CHAN CCD ACQ. BOARD
AUGUST 05
IRACQ
36 CHAN IR ACQ. BOARD
RELEASE C
CLK-BIAS
CLOCK & BIAS BOARD
RELEASE C
MCB
MASTER CONTROL BOARD
RELEASE B
ICD 1.0
ICD 7.0
CCD ACQ. TRANSITION
BOARD
RELEASED
IR ACQ. TRANSITION
BOARDS
RELEASED
CLOCK & BIAS TRANSITION
BOARDS
RELEASED
ICD 6.x
- HARDWARE -- SOFTWARE -
DATA
ICS
ICD 8.xDETECTO
R
Cold shower .. Cut and paste
Cold shower #1: - CCD Front End - cut and paste:
CDS
BIAS
CPLD
FPGA
Requirements set August
2003
First Prototype produced
July 2004
Testing and ECO completed
June 2005
First production Boards August
2005
Functionality good, but performance takes time.
8 Video Channels/Board
18 Bit Dynamic Range
800 KPix/Chan/Sec
p & n Channel Devices
32 HV Biases (+/- 35 V)
32 Bit DOP
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DES : DeCam• 12 Channel CCD Video Board• Firmware Development
MONSOON
- Collaboration History -
QUOTA /ODI• Hardware Test and Dev.• Firmware Dev.• Guide + Science Software Dev.
Cold shower #2: - Each ‘collaboration’ effort requires explicit support which in turn, requires resources.However, collaborations that ‘stick’ are very productive !